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"Many of them are waiting to leave", the British minister: Hundreds of Albanian emigrants have returned to their homeland

Politiko 2023-06-04 12:15:19

"Many of them are waiting to leave", the British minister: Hundreds of

Hundreds of migrants have so far returned to Albania under the government's "gold standard" deal with the country, says Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick. This is despite the fact that more than 12,000 Albanians crossed the Channel in small boats last year, according to official figures.

Speaking to Skynews , he initially said thousands of illegal immigrants were returning to Albania, before clarifying that hundreds had been placed on flights agreed in December last year.

He said it was still "early days" and that "last-minute false claims" had prevented deportations, but acknowledged that many others were currently in hotels or had fled.

 Jenrick was asked "How many people who arrived in small boats have returned to Albania?" - to which he replied that "thousands of Albanians are returning to Albania".

He was then pressed by Sophy whether this figure also included criminals, and not just those who arrived across the Channel.

The Interior Minister of the Home Office clarified: "Well, there are hundreds of Albanians who have arrived who have been placed on those flights."

The government announced in April that over 1,000 Albanian nationals had returned since December, but this included "failed asylum seekers, foreign national offenders and voluntary returns".

Jenrick previously described the agreement as a "gold standard" agreement , which is seeing "thousands of illegal Albanian immigrants return home and the number of crossings from that country decreasing significantly".

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